Markings: The cowling carries the name
"REEVES, BRATTON" on both sides. This name also appears on the baseplate, which
has the part number "87". The ratchet pawl has part number
"201".

Manufacturer: R.J.Reeves &
Sons, Bratton, Wilts.

An enormous formal stone pump situated in the centre of a
courtyard within Barrow Court, near Barrow Gurney, estimated as dating from
1891. There are two wooden maintenance doors on other sides of the shaft.
Inscribed around the top is:

FIRST ADAM QUENCHED HIS THIRST WITH WATER

Markings: None other.

Manufacturer: Unk.

Bawdrip, Somerset. Photo supplied by John Hurst - thanks,
John.

Markings: None, but it's essentially
identical to one in Carlisle made by C. Allen &
Son.

The Patwell Pump at Bruton, Soms, with what looks like the end of
a flywheel shaft protruding through the wall. Thanks to John Hurst for the
photos. The sign says:

PATWELL PUMPThe present pump and pumphouse would
appearto date from the late 18th or early 19th centuryand replaced an
earlier pumphouse on the samesite. It is rare in Somerset to find a public
pumpcomplete and in working order. The machineryinside the building can
be inspected by arrangementwith the Parish Clerk. Repaired
1984.

The remains of a chain pump embedded in concrete on top of a wall
at a farm near Charlton Musgrove, Somerset. Thanks to John Hurst for the photos
on the left, and to Shawn Shaw for the one on the right, which shows the chain
and disks very clearly.

Doulting, Soms. Thanks to Matt Rogers for the photograph. The cast
iron panel seems to display the letters "WNFM" but closer inspection suggests
that it might in fact be "WMFM". If so, this could stand for William Melliar
Foster-Melliar (1836-1906), of North Aston Hall, Deddington, Oxon, who was High
Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1865.The woods at nearby Beacon Hill were owned by
Mr. Foster-Melliar and there are reportedly several boundary stones there which
are also marked WMFM. A brass plaque (which was still reported in 2013 to be
highly polished) is mounted above the original cast iron panel, and
reads:

THIS PLAQUE WAS ERECTEDIN 1976 IN MEMORY
OFSCOT PIKEWHO BEAUTIFIED OUR VILLAGEFOR
MANY YEARS

Markings: A cast iron panel
through which the handle protrudes, with letters that might
be"WMFM".